Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Smartphone Awards: 2015!”.
Hey what is up guys, I’m cabby HD here we all know plenty of smartphones come out every year. Clearly, 2015 was no exception to that rule. So this video is your one-stop shop for picking one. This video will hopefully give you all the information you need to be able to confidently sign that contract with a great choice in a smart phone. So if all the smart phones released during 2015, these are going to be the best in each category and as I do for the smartphone Awards, I’m going to give you guys a first-place Best Overall option, but also a second-place also still pretty good the runner-up.
And then an honorable mention or two to round it out, so this is the smartphone Awards, 2015. So first up we got the top big phones of the year. Now, smart phones get seems bigger and bigger every single year, and often the top of the line option is huge, but only some of them really take advantage of their size. So these are the best big smart phone options right now number one is the Samsung Galaxy.
Note 5, it definitely qualifies as a big phone with a 5.7 inch quad HD Super AMOLED display, and it really takes advantage of all that real estate packing a big battery, big specs and a bunch of software features that really take advantage of that awesome screen. So love it or hate it. This is one big advantage of a software skin on a phone like this. It’S adding a bunch of productivity and fun features that stock Android just doesn’t have so.
My second place option for best big phone of the year is going to go to LG’s v10. It showed up closer to the end of the year, but it really showed up LG’s own g4, as one of the best phones they’ve ever made. The v10 is rocking a 5.7 inch IPS display and it’s definitely a big phone with big specs and again.
A lot of the features are those similar to Samsung’s short of that stylus to best take advantage of the extra real estate, and you can see that in reviews I’ll have all the reviews of all the phones. I talked about in this article in the links right below that like button, and I have honorable mentions in the big phones category the Nexus 6p and the samsung galaxy s6 edge, both over 5.5 inch displays and both really premium now, on the opposite end of the Spectrum, we have the best compact smartphones of the year, and it seems like a true high-end, but also really compact. Smartphone is becoming a bit of a rare breed, since all these high-end smartphones are getting so big.
The more compact counterparts are more low-end, but not so with these best choices. So my number one pick for best compact smartphone of the Year by these criteria is the iPhone 6s and it wins this award because it is still a true full, no compromises flagship. This is everything that Apple has to offer all their latest innovations and all their highest end specs. So really, even if Apple does make some sacrifices to get their phone. This thin there’s one thing you can’t deny and that’s the ridiculously fast performance of the new a9 chip. So if speed is your thing, if you want a really fast and relatively compact phone at 4.7 inches, then iPhone 6s is a great bet.
My very close second place for best compact smartphone is going to go to the Sony. Xperia z5 compact because Sony’s doing a lot of the same stuff, they’re bringing in the high-end features from the Xperia z5 an z5 premium into a much smaller package. Alright, the next category for the smartphone awards is the best camera in a smartphone this year, and this is a category that heated up a lot. We got a lot of really good smartphone cameras this year, so the margin between first place and second place and third place even fourth, fifth and sixth – is razor thin, so you’re probably going to get a good option, no matter which one and easy pick.
But my number one pick for best camera in a smartphone is again going to go to the samsung galaxy. Note. 5. Note 5 has the best point-and-shoot camera on a smartphone right now by a hair. It’S really that fast customisable camera app combined with the razor-sharp 16 megapixel photos with that punchy, color and salih dynamic range that makes the quality hard to deny it’s also a great 4k video, shooter and you’ll find the same optics, also in galaxy s6, s6 edge and S6 edge, so I guess sort of lump those all into this number.
One placement, I don’t know Samsung over the past couple years, has been getting really good at smartphone cameras. Now my number two pick and again this is a very close number. Two is going to go to the LG v10.
The image quality out of the v10 s. Camera is right up on par with the note 5 and if you’re experienced, you can go right ahead and basically match it with some cases in manual mode. But the v10 camera really shines with its software, which also includes a manual video mode making this by far and away the best choice for someone looking to shoot a lot of smartphone video. But it doesn’t hurt that the auto mode is pretty great too, and I got to give honourable mentions to these phones. I’Ve taken a lot of pictures with my iPhone 6s plus and my Nexus 6p, which have some of the best and quickest camera apps in any smartphone, and both take very reliable quality photos and again, the margin of difference between the first and fifth best. Smartphone cameras is not that big, so you get a good choice, either way. Alright next category best budget smartphone of 2015 – and this is a category that again heated up a lot. Good phones got really cheap. Cheap phones got really good. We saw a lot of quality stuff in the budget department this year to the point where it’s actually kind of hard to define.
What exactly is budget? Is it sub $ 400, or is it sub $ 300 only either way? There’S no doubt about it. In my mind, the number one pick for best budget smartphone came over here. It’S the oneplus X, whatever debate there may be about the amount of a budget smartphone. This one definitely qualifies it’s just 250 bucks off contract, no invite very inexpensive for the material choices. The build quality and overall experience this phone manages to deliver. The display is definitely one of its best features. It’S the 5-inch 1080p AMOLED display with those deep blacks and vivid colors, but there’s a whole lot more to it as well, with metal rails, expandable storage and the custom OS definitely worth checking out that full review. Now right after that, I have a phone. I came in just shy of $ 400 off contract which, in my book is still budget, considering a 6 7 and $ 800 phones. We have on this table, so I’m going to give that second place to the new Moto X Pierre. This is one of the more important phones of the year because of the precedent is set for flagship phones not having to be super expensive.
When it came out, it was the highest end. Phone Motorola made a legit flagship high-end, specs, 21 megapixel camera and near stock. Android with a few moto extras, but yet it sits on the shelf at a super competitive price, and I think that played a big part as a spark plug for a lot of the budget focus phones.
We saw come after it now running out the best budget stuff of the year. I got two more. You could consider sort of pseudo budget depending on the way you look at it, but I got to hand it to the oneplus 2 and the Nexus.
5X. 1. 2 was daily driver quality for me for a while with a lot of those custom, software features I loved and a solid build again at 389 bucks and the Nexus 5x is your pure stock Android phone even taking the same camera optics from the higher-end Nexus 6p And putting them all in a lightweight $ 329 package, alright. So the next category in smartphone awards is a new one for this year in 2015 and it’s battery life best battery life in a smart phone, and I’m adding this specifically because I’m neglected in the highest-end flagships in favor of stuff, like thinness and other features. We may or may not like or need so I’m rewarding the ones that don’t do that and my number one pick is got to go to the Motorola Droid Maxx battery life was the main focus on the Droid.
Maxx moto boasts two days of battery and while I can’t exactly vouch for all that, it is rocking a 3630 million power cells, so huge on paper and a legit all-day smartphone. With that 1080p display and an ear stock, Android experience, if you’re one of those people who demands five-and-a-half hours of screen on time or is constantly using your phone for heavy stuff like navigation or periscope, or anything that kills your battery max. Now I have a second place in the battery life Department. That’S because after recent Android M updates, Nexus 6p is getting me some of the best battery life I’ve ever had on a high-end smartphone, I’m getting like near five hours of screen on time now.
So that’s awesome to see – and I also got to give a shout-out to LG for not coming out with just one but two high-end smartphones with removable batteries, the LG v10 and the LG g4. Both have big removable batteries and that’s pretty much the fastest form of quick charge you can have now. The next category is a little favorite of mine. It’S the most improved award for company that improved the most this year and there’s a couple guys. I could give this to, but right now the number one most improved, I think by far in my opinion, is blackberry again with the BlackBerry Prive. My full review of this one says it all, but it’s again by far the best BlackBerry ever and the most competitive one in a long time, it’s unfortunately still really expensive and still definitely not for everyone, with the version of Android it’s running with a whole bunch Of its customizations and the slider keyboard that form factor, but it’s, I guess refreshing in a weirdly throwback way to see blackberry continuing to get better. So now I have a category called the design award and last year I called it like the craziest design this year. I just want to reward the best design in my opinion and there’s a bunch of smart phones on this table.
You may or may not be able to identify most of them by the way they look on the back, but some of them are more striking than others, and some of them are more industrial than others, and I got reward that so my favorite right now of This year is a samsung galaxy s6 edge in a sea of black slab phone’s, not gon na lie. It would be pretty easy for almost any slightly unusual one to stick out, but this one is just pretty. Even if it’s not gold, the slow helping edges and the display melting over right before the metal rails is dope, I hope we see another edge phone from Samsung next year. I runner-ups in this design category two phones that had particularly awesome displays this year on the front of them.
First of all, being the Motorola Droid turbo 2. This guy has a shatterproof display, legit and yes, I can vouch that it survives real drops and the other one is the Sony Xperia z5 premium rocking a full freaking 4k display it’s super early for these, but when it kicks in to full 4k, it looks dope. I made a video all about that screen.
Next up is an award I hate to have to give, but I always will it’s the bust of the year for 2015, the one I guess, the biggest letdown in a smartphone world and there’s a couple again that I could possibly give this to, but the one That stands out is the HTC One a9, even if we ignore the striking resemblance to a certain Apple flagship, the a9, as a replacement to the HTC One m9 to me, is disappointing because it makes it a flagship with a lot of sacrifices. It sacrificed being able to shoot 4k video for a certain chip. It sacrifice the legendary boom sound speakers for a home button.
I mean I hate to talk about for more than I have to, but this was easily the biggest letdown of the year. For me and I’ll have my eye on HTC that much more to see next year’s phone, so that leaves us with the final category, which is your MVP, the best smartphone of the year. In my opinion and again, these are very subjective and I’ll have all the reviews to as many of the phones that I’m talking about today as possible in the description right below that like button. But the best phone of the year is the best overall contender, and it’s often one that I use for the longest period of time during the year. For that exact reason, and my number one choice is the Nexus 6p. I would say my heavy use of this guy hints at my preference for a cleaner, build of Android, and this is as clean as it gets. Awesome display awesome battery life, awesome camera great performance, great build quality. I mean this is a complete package from top to bottom. It competes in every category and it’s not even the most expensive one on this list. So it’s kind of hard to argue with Nexus 6p.
My number-two in the MVP race is the Galaxy Note. 5. I could have easily given it to the samsung galaxy s6 edge, what a name, but I actually just felt that the feel in the hand of the note 5 won me over a little bit. But I use this phone for a while this year as well.
Note. 5 is also stacked. I give it best display on any smartphone best camera on any smartphone and some of the best specs available, I’m less of a fan of the software. It’S not for everyone like, I said, and this also happens to be a super fingerprint magnet and one of the slippery phones of all time.
But you know skin will clean that right up and I use this phone for a while to sear as well. I got a couple honorable mentions in the MVP race this year, just for a couple of different reasons. First is the Moto X 2015, like I said earlier, this guy set a precedence for what you can do on a budget, and I feel like during the year after this came out. We actually saw more quality budget smartphones start to appear and competitive pricing for flagships.
Overall, now is even more of a big deal. My second honorable mention is the iPhone 6s and 6s plus, and that’s simply because they’re, the fastest phones, I’ve used this year Apple. I don’t know what exactly you did with that: a 9 ship, but iOS just flies. I love it and I can’t forget to shout out Microsoft’s 950 XL, which was by far and away the best Windows Phone choice of this year.
Let me know if you guys want to see a full review of that, but I think that’s the pretty easy choice. So there you have, it guys, there’s clearly a lot of great smartphones released in 2015 and the choice is there for almost everyone, so whether you need something with particularly great camera for photos and videos or you need a really long battery life. If you travel a lot or you need a particularly compact or a large phone depending on your taste, the choice is there you’d be kind of hard-pressed to go wrong with one of the ones we talked about in this article, so there you have it and if You know someone who might be in the market for buying a smartphone. You probably want to share this video with them.
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